How do archeologists know that old tools they find were made by Homosapiens and not another species of homonid?
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u/cassious64 got excited and went way beyond explain like I’m 5. Making stone tools is a complex skill, and people usually make the same tools that their teachers made. When a type of tool is found with a type of human remains, archaeologists assume that the tools found alone came from the same type of person. There are archaeologists who make stone tools and butcher animals with them, so they have a really detailed understanding of the techniques that go into shaping them.
Early humans made tools according to simple patterns that didn’t change for thousands of generations. With more recent finds, archaeologists can be a little rigid in assuming that, for example, a certain style of pottery is *always* from one place, and that someone from another place never decided to copy it. But early hominids seem to have been pretty rigid about the stone tools they used- although they must have been creative and adaptable in other areas of their life in order to survive.
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